Example sentences of "[noun] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two months later her gall bladder had been removed , but she continued to experience abdominal discomfort . |
| 2 | Gall bladder contractility was present in nine of the 10 patients at follow up ; in two of these patients a non-contractile gall bladder had become contractile and in one patient , gall bladder contractility had been lost . |
| 3 | On the day after the third treatment , the stone in the cystic duct was not detectable and the gall bladder had collapsed . |
| 4 | Johnson pondered the ruin of the building : ‘ The church of Elgin had , in the intestine tumults of the barbarous ages , been laid waste by the irruption of a highland chief , whom the bishop had offended . ’ |
| 5 | No , not enough of a clue as to whether these were the same depredations Johnson had deplored : Elgin had suffered marauders more than once . |
| 6 | But then Ferdinando made sense of another rumour , that Napoleon had reneged , that he had made peace with the Austrians at Villafranca the day before and all was now over for Italian hopes . |
| 7 | He was buried with the kings of France until Napoleon had the remains removed to the Invalides in 1800 . |
| 8 | Every Street in the Gallowgate and the Calton had become a parking place for horses , hansom cabs , buses that could well have been the ‘ taxis of Waterloo' if Napoleon had been on our side , broughams with the seats held together by faith and carpet tacks , open coaches decorated with scraps of cloth and coloured paper , growling , fuming motor-cars … the invasion of the East End of Glasgow was total . |
| 9 | Paris gave the immediate illusion of spaciousness and grandeur ; the swelling pride of Louix XIV and Napoleon had expressed itself in truly monumental architecture . |
| 10 | The author , himself a captain of artillery in the Regiment of the Canton of Berne , did not , of course , fail to point out that Napoleon had begun his career as an artillery man , a fact which provided a point of departure for comment on the Emperor 's ideas in general . |
| 11 | Napoleon had fought one of his early battles at Toulon , but Rose-Marie had n't realised this until Catriona pointed it out . |
| 12 | The Poles had nurtured the hope that the French would restore the old Polish state with Danzig attached as before , but Napoleon had other ideas . |
| 13 | In Germany , by contrast , technical education was well advanced , and Napoleon had had the foresight to create institutions of excellence which would provide France with its future engineers , agriculturalists and the rest ; but many an English self-made man would want to see his offspring succeed in altogether ‘ cleaner ’ and more respectable fields , making their mark as doctors , lawyers , Oxford classicists or even politicians . |
| 14 | It was based on the principle of ‘ a nation in arms ’ , much as Napoleon had employed a levee en masse . |
| 15 | Now , by the chaos of war , and because the exiled Napoleon had returned to France and thrust a new period of battle on Europe , Sharpe was a lieutenant-colonel in the 5th Belgian Light Dragoons , a regiment he had never met , had no wish to meet , and would not have recognized if it had formed line and charged him . |
| 16 | The French army , which the Duke still thought was massing south of the border , was probably the finest instrument that Napoleon had ever commanded . |
| 17 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 18 | Then , just as d'Alembord was about to sell his commission and retire to one of his prospective father-in-law 's farms , Napoleon had returned to France . |
| 19 | There may be a certain exaggeration in the statement that Napoleon had offered a reward for the taking of ‘ the English incendiary ‘ Kvinn or Quin ’ who had been responsible for the burning of three French battleships in the Gulf of Villefranche last year ’ but the sixteen year-old 's behaviour while in prison in Toulon is entirely in keeping with what we know about him : |
| 20 | In June 1940 the land of Louis XIV and Napoleon had experienced swift defeat at the hands of Germany . |
| 21 | The citadel of Bayonne , on the right or northern bank of the Adour , stood out against the English for three months , by which time Napoleon had abdicated and the war was over . |
| 22 | A year earlier , at Erfurt , Napoleon had agreed with the tsar to accept the right of Russia to Wallachia and Moldavia , but to leave Serbia within the Ottoman empire . |
| 23 | 7 ‘ RAILWAYS : If Napoleon had had them at his disposition , he would have been invincible . |
| 24 | The first Napoleon had been a patron of men of science , perhaps hoping that finance and political economy might be thus ‘ removed from the sphere of party ’ ; and men like Berthollet , Laplace , Cuvier , Gay-Lussac , Arago , Dumas and Berthelot played prominent parts in , or received titles from , governments of different colours during the century . |
| 25 | History might have been different if Cleopatra 's nose had been longer or Napoleon had been taller . |
| 26 | Hubel and his colleagues had studied the visual cortex of the rhesus monkey for many years without observing these cells and it was only when the cytochrome oxidase blobs had been demonstrated consistently and they started to look for receptive-field properties within them that they obtained these surprising results . |
| 27 | An impasse had been reached . |
| 28 | She turned on the television to watch the midday news and learned that an impasse had been reached between the American and Icelandic leaders during their discussions about the reduction of nuclear weapons . |
| 29 | An impasse had been reached , a new direction sought , and label manager Billy Kiltie had thoughts on concentrating instead on a less commercially ambitious underground label , Limbo . |
| 30 | The impasse had resulted in California having no budget for 65 days , during which time the state 's authorities had been forced to issue more than $3,000 million-worth of " warrants " ( IOUs ) in order to meet payroll and other contractual obligations . |